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The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
Wayne Newton plays the third of seven nights in the Marine Ballroom, The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
The Four Seasons record Let's Hang On and Sassy in Stea-Philips Studio, New York City, USA. They also record a parody version of the Bob Dylan song Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, which will be released under the pseudonym of The Wonder Who.
Janis Joplin, living at home with her parents in Port Arthur, Texas, USA, writes a letter to her boyfriend, Peter De Blanc, in New York City, USA. She writes, "I've been thinking fondly of you. It surely will be nice when we can get married. It's going to be great!"
Jimmy Hendrix [later to become Jimi Hendrix] writes a letter to his girlfriend Fayne Pridgeon in New York City, USA. His relationship with her is ending.
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Actor and singer Craig McLachlan, is born in Long Jetty, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania.
Jazz vocalist Irene Reid, backed by The Bert Keyes Orchestra, records The Funny Thing About It and Even If You Don't Mean It for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
The Beach Boys play at The Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Petula Clark plays in Monte Carlo, Monaco, Europe.
A new West German tv rock series, Beat Club, makes its first broadcast from Bremen, Germany, Europe, under the auspices of the regional TV network Radio Bremen.
UK folkie Al Stewart plays at The Marquee, London, England, UK.
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Elvis Presley is filming his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Chuck Berry records Right Off Rampart Street, Run Joe, It's My Own Business, Every Day We Rock And Roll, One For My Baby and My Mustang Ford, for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hal Willis records North To Alaska, Jack The Lumberjack and Winding Wanabago Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Players on the session include guitarists Grady Martin and Harold Bradley, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Hargus Robbins, harmonica player Charlie McCoy, The Nashville Symphony Orchestra and The Jordanaires.
Rockabilly legend Sleepy LaBeef records Shame Shame Shame for Columbia Records in the USA.
The Byrds record Bob Dylan's anthemic The Times They Are A-Changin', for their second Columbia Records album, Turn! Turn! Turn!, in Los Angeles,California, USA.
The Walker Brothers play in Leigh, England, UK.
Jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss records Embraceable You, Close Your Eyes and other tracks at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
The Iveys, later to become Badfinger, play at Fountain's Disco (Tenby Beach), Tenby, South Wales, UK.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Barbara Lewis performing Baby, I'm Yours and The Turtles performing the Bob Dylan song It Ain't Me Babe; also on the show are Peter And Gordon.
At the end of a tour of the USA, The Beatles hang out with The Byrds in Los Angeles, California, USA, before flying home to the UK in the evening.
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Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Les Jeux Interdits, The Victoria Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.